Steroids are obviously the most well known drug in sports....

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Contrast this with America, a country just a porous line in the sand away from Mexico, where steroids are an illegal, Schedule III drug, and where congressmen have declared a "national public health crisis" because livers are rotting, kidneys are failing, cancer is rampant, teens are hanging themselves, and otherwise normal people go into psychotic episodes that end in madness, mayhem, murder and death. Sports stars are falling in disgrace, the great American pastime's record books are littered with asterisks, and the children, our precious pioneers of tomorrow, are in imminent and grave peril.

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Why It's Time To Legalize Steroids In Professional Sports

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Science is the bottom line, not the emotional fantasy concocted by the alarmists like Hooton and the media, which is more interested in ratings than facts. A very simple comparison of steroids against all the other legal vices in America, like alcohol and tobacco, as well as numerous over the counter preparations, indicates that steroids, based on a comparative danger to health, should be legal, at least for adult men in good health and under the watchful eye of a doctor.

Why Anabolic Steroids Should Not Be Allowed In Professional Sports

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Right away, we see that that's not much. And remember, too, that we have assigned all of his muscle gain to steroids, which is just silly: if he wentthrough the same exercise regime without any steroids, he'd still gain some significant muscle. Just what does 2 to 4 extra feet mean? It's hard to say, but (and the line of thought is onthe longer page) that kind of difference--that is, without the extra muscle the ball falls 2 to 4 feet short but with it it just clears the fence--might mean one extra home run a year for anaverage man; and, again, the purely steroidal component might not even mean that. So it's not at all surprising that the actual stats of the game show no effect from putative steroid use, bulked-up biceps or no.

Should steroids be allowed in sports?

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However, after two and a-half decades on the books, the law has proved to be an abysmal failure. What happened was that thousands of otherwise law-abiding Americans – not athletes, but mature adult males – have been arrested, arraigned, prosecuted, convicted, forfeited property, lost their jobs and their licenses, and sentenced to prison for the personal use of anabolic steroids.

Steroids should be allowed in sports | Shradhanjali

As the statistics show, the use of steroids is happening still today even with the extra attention that is on these and other performance enhancers. It isn’t just with the professional athlete either. Young athletes are using steroids as well on a very regular basis.

Steroids In Sports… Is It Unfair? | Versus Verses

If we know that steroids are bad to take because it makes the body produce higher levels of testosterone, then why risk long-term health for short-term rewards? Part of the issue may be the fact that visual exposure to heavily muscled men and women in media today has a similar effect that is seen with models and young girls. People judge themselves against the mega bodybuilders and athletes, find themselves lacking, and decide to take steroids so that they can have their “best body.”

people who use steroids in sports should be banned ..

Some believe that it is time to legalize the use of steroids in professional sports. As the statistics show, however, legalizing drug use for professional athletes would very likely increase teen athlete use of steroids.

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The problem that society faces isn’t a stigma issue, but a tolerance issue. People know that steroids are bad, but they’re willing to look the other way if the enhanced performance will help their favorite team out in some way. Sports Illustrated conducted a poll amongst teen athletes and only 3% of them said that they would try steroids if they knew it would make them a better athlete. That’s 2.5x lower than what the actual usage rates currently are.